Doug’s World

My stance is pretty extreme. We took this land by force and murder. We murdered the natives and chased them outside our borders or into out-of-the way corners. I often point out to people that this history is one of the main reasons the Japanese did what they did in World War II. All they could see was a bunch of rascist, white, murdering bastards that didn’t give a shit about people of color. We may sweep it under the rug, but history doesn’t. So from the moment Admiral Perry opened Japan up with that battleship, the Japanese never once thought we were actually dealing with the trustworthy people.

Few nations really think so, and few nations should. We like to pretend on the international stage that we are the greatest and the most moral, and we demand that everyone bow down to this truth, but it’s not true at all.

The natives we chased away didn’t even believe in owning land or borders. So saying “You can’t cross this river, or else.” just didn’t mean much to them, and apparently it still doesn’t.

We’re all human. We’re all in this together. It seems to me that our borders should be completely open to both our neighbors. Any citizen of any of these three North American nations should be able to cross the border freely and work or live in either of the other two nations if they wish.

In fact, my stance is even more radical than just opening the physical border: I think the entire border should be dissolved. In other words, we should just move to a North American Tripartite of some sort, because then we can level the playing field regarding variations in local rules that favor movement one direction and not the other.

We could even write up a democratic constitution with human rights built right into it. Although the media and powers that be seem to think we should slaver over the Perfect God-Blessed Nation that is the United States of America, the truth is that we’ve had time to see the good and the bad with the way we do things and we could do a better job of forming a government than even our forefathers.

We could get rid of our ridiculous system of justice inherited from a despot king. We could even include guarantees like: “Freedom of behavior and speech shall not be obstructed any time, anywhere, by anyone, for any reason, and this time we really mean it, and that includes you fascist pigs that don’t want to let people just be who they want to be.”

Our border would be totally controllable. Do you think thousands and thousands of people could possibly trek through the Amazon Jungle and swim the Panama Canal without being stopped?

Maybe we could stop egotistically thinking of ourselves as the end all and be all on this planet and solve some social issues that have been left unadressed for too long by taking the lead from some other nations.

I like how Japan handles transportation. I like how the Netherlands handles the drug issue. Maybe we could just pick and choose the best in the world and take it for ourselves since we all come from somewhere else anyway.

Meanwhile, we could get rid of our two party system. I’m so tired of left arguing with right and right with left. I’m tired of this whole idea that these money-grubbing pigs in office are any different from each other. The truth is that they’ve agreed to argue EVERY issue just so that nothing ever happens and everything stays exactly the same. In this way, both sides are actually completely identical. Whatever you catch one side doing, you can catch the other side doing the same thing. And that includes bogging everything down in endless debates so that nothing ever gets done.

In the media they make a big show of Bill and Hillary Clinton on the left and the Bush family and Republicans on the right, as if one is to be villified and the other is to be honored. And of course, it depends on who is presenting the issue as to who the good guys and bad guys are. All on both sides are sickeningly biased and blinded to their own bias while pointing out all the faults of the other side, every one of which is shared!

Meanwhile all these people are drinking the same drinks, and eating the same world-class food, going to the same parties, and riding in the same private yachts and jets. One problem is that these idiots actually fool themselves into thinking that they are doing us good, when they know they are there to keep things the same.

Anyway, they may be fooling most of the people most of the time, but they aren’t fooling me.

Then I start thinking that I should go down to the local Mosque and join Islam. Boy, would that throw a wrench in things!

I already know what the main teaching is and I already know I don’t have a problem with it. Few from a Christian tradition really would. It’s yet another “Do unto others” religion with members that are too stupid to follow the rule.

What’s the big deal? Happens all the time because that’s the story of just about every religion, isn’t it? On this world, religion is just a bunch of high ideals that no one ever lives up to.

Back at the turn of the century you can find characterizations of old curmudgeons harumphing about progress. “Progress!” They’d say. “Ha!” I can understand why they were less than thrilled. Just what has the rush been anyway? Why is the world just rushing forward into a future where it’s not even sure there will be a next generation? Wouldn’t a totally self-sufficient solar home on the frontier be a better life?

Even if we phased out fossil fuels and heavier-than-air pollutants and CO2 emissions, and I mean, even if we made all of these offenses punishable by death and stuck to it, we would probably be able to develop totally clean and green replacement sources of energy fairly quickly and all our systems would be back up and running within a few years. But no one wants to slow down and wait for that so we can switchover. Instead, it’s full steam ahead.

Are you really comfortable rushing full speed ahead just because someone keeps popping up on TV telling us we can’t be sure? It’s always someone tied to oil and we’re always assured that fact is irrelevant.

That’s dumb to me because based on what I know about human nature, people are in total denial about what they are doing to this planet. Even those with a pessimistic outlook on global climate change are biased in the direction of not wanting to see how bad it really is starting to get. Even Al Gore can’t bring himself to admit how bad it really is to himself or to us.

He feels some need to say that we can’t be sure.

And why waste money rebuilding New Orleans when we’d be better off planning the complete evacuation of at least 27 other cities when the time comes?

“So offer a solution!” cries a jeering crowd of idiots.

The only solution is at the individual level. Each of us has a sphere of influence around us that we can control, but few of us have a sphere of influence that covers the globe. In other words, you can take care of what happens in your world, but I can’t. Each of us individually has to make the sphere around us look like the world we want.

For instance, I can give up driving a car, but I can’t make you give one up.

Sometimes I think it would be funny if someone invented an advanced iteration of the hang glider that actually allowed the average person to fly just like a bird.

We’d all look back on this silly car driving shit and shake our heads in shame.